{"id":27452,"date":"2017-10-16T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/?p=27452"},"modified":"2017-10-15T20:13:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T20:13:20","slug":"good-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/10\/16\/good-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few good things that have given me the fizzy this week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>#freeupmyinsta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonsadler.co.uk\/\">Allison Sadler&#8217;s<\/a> Instagram challenge is back! Starting today with prompts chosen by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bettymagazine.co.uk\/betty\/\">Charlotte\u00a0Jacklin<\/a> it&#8217;s a great way to change your Instagram feed, connect with new people and inspire yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The prompts for the next seven days are:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>look up<\/li>\n<li>inspiration<\/li>\n<li>bloom<\/li>\n<li>simple pleasures<\/li>\n<li>Friday fun<\/li>\n<li>explore<\/li>\n<li>favourite<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Get involved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unplugging<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I go on about this because this is what I need to do. This article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/05\/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia\">Guardian<\/a>\u00a0is really clear about how our phones are designed to be addictive. The idea of an attention economy and the places that leads us to are disturbing. A good read for deciding how you want to use your phone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Write To The Point by Sam Leith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/write-to-the-point\/sam-leith\/9781781254769\">this <\/a>on the power and skill of persuasive writing. Nowhere near as dry a subject as it sounds. Easy to understand, funny and fascinating. I always knew I read differently on a Kindle to a proper book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Butter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One tiny ingredient\u00a0can change a whole meal. I did a huge breakfast yesterday of yoghurt with granola, bacon, cheese, croissants, baguettes, jam and butter. The butter made it. It was M&amp;S&#8217;s Cornish butter with sea salt crystals. Heavenly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"background-color: black; color: white; text-decoration: none; padding: 4px 6px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Ubuntu, Roboto, Noto, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; display: inline-block; border-radius: 3px;\" title=\"Download free do whatever you want high-resolution photos from Sebastian Pichler\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@pichler_sebastian?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=photographer-credit&amp;utm_content=creditBadge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; padding: 2px 3px;\">Sebastian Pichler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few good things that have given me the fizzy this week. &nbsp; #freeupmyinsta &nbsp; Allison Sadler&#8217;s Instagram challenge is back! Starting today with prompts chosen by\u00a0Charlotte\u00a0Jacklin it&#8217;s a great way to change your Instagram feed, connect with new people and inspire yourself. The prompts for the next seven days are: &nbsp; look up inspiration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[39,25,155,46],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sebastian-pichler-20071.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27455,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27452\/revisions\/27455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}